vt.Buzz: Secrecy critics fought and lost a NSA data collection case in Vermont in 2006

10:31 AM,
Jun. 11, 2013

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For Allen Gilbert, there has been a familiar ring to the revelations last week that the National Security Agency accessed the telephone data of millions of Americans and apparently has a dragnet collecting email and other internet data.

"I want to remind people there is a history, a Vermont history in the case," Gilbert said in a telephone interview from Detroit where he was attending the ACLU's national leadership conference. "It is not a surprise we now have a whistle blower giving us the information that many wanted to know in 2006."